{"id":632478,"date":"2026-03-04T21:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/632478\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:31:16","slug":"4-things-you-need-to-know-about-cutter-leftwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/632478\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Things You Need to Know About Cutter Leftwich"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kentucky football team is preparing for spring practice to kick off next week. There are still plenty of unknowns after Will Stein<\/a><\/strong> transformed the program. On Tuesday, we got a chance to get to know Cutter Leftwich<\/a><\/strong>, the man tasked with rebuilding the Big Blue Wall. He spent plenty of time talking about his offensive line in a new No Huddle! edition of 11 Personnel<\/a>, but there were a few other things from the conversation that will give you a better idea of who is leading the Kentucky offensive line. <\/p>\n

Leftwich\u2019s life has revolved around the gridiron. The son of a coach, his father Spencer, spent 30 years in the college ranks at jobs ranging from Stephen F. Austin to Pitt and Arizona. Cutter was good enough to play college football at McNeese State, starting in 20 games at center before an injury forced him to retire, but there were limitations to Leftwich\u2019s game. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had my hand on the ground, always been an offensive lineman my entire life, never even scored a touchdown,\u201d Leftwich admitted. <\/p>\n

2. He Beat his Brother in the CFP<\/p>\n

While he was busy doing the dirty work in the trenches, his older brother, Mack<\/strong><\/a>, was spinning it as a quarterback. Even though his career at UTEP didn\u2019t pop off the page, he\u2019s a rising star in the coaching ranks. Leftwich is a two-time Broyles Award nominee, given each year to the sport\u2019s top assistant coach. <\/p>\n

In 2024, Mack had Texas State\u2019s offense firing on all cylinders. He was scheduled to face off against Cutter\u2019s North Texas Mean Green in a bowl game, but left to become the Texas Tech play-caller before the postseason matchup. Fast forward a year, and the two are facing off in the College Football Playoff. <\/p>\n

\u201cMe and my older brother are extremely close. We normally talk at least once a week, if not more. But to be completely honest, leading up to that game, there was very little chatter between us, very little talking\u2026 If there was one thing for sure, my Mom was a nervous wreck going into that game.\u201d <\/p>\n

Leftwich\u2019s Ducks got the last laugh, blanking Texas Tech 23-0 in the Orange Bowl. \u201cI\u2019ll tell you what, the family group chat after that one was buzzing, definitely in my favor there,\u201d Cutter admitted. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a really cool experience, to be honest with you. To be able to be in the College Football Playoff, be able to play in such a big game, have your brother there, your family there, and coaching against your brother, that was a really cool, unique experience. And I was definitely excited after the victory.\u201d <\/p>\n

3. Drums > Flats<\/p>\n

Buffalo wing connoisseurs will tell you that flats are superior to drums in every single way. Others are happy to keep it simple with a drum. The new Kentucky offensive line falls into the latter category. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am a drums guy myself. This might \u2014 I don\u2019t want to offend anybody or anything, but I think there\u2019s a little bit too much work there with flats. I take the easy road. No matter what, I drench \u2019em in ranch,\u201d said Leftwich. \u201cI\u2019m 100% ranch, 100%. There\u2019s not a bite that goes by that\u2019s not gonna be dipped in some ranch.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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4. Leftwich Once Lived with Will Stein<\/p>\n

Will Stein has connections to many of the assistants on his new staff, but few have as much experience working with the Wildcats\u2019 new head coach as Leftwich. He first stepped into coaching as a graduate assistant at UTSA when Stein served as the Roadrunners\u2019 pass game coordinator. Leftwich also spent the 2023 and 2025 seasons as an assistant offensive line coach at Oregon. <\/p>\n

\u201cI actually had the opportunity to live with Coach Stein for a little bit in the move-in and the transition,\u201d Leftwich shared. They\u2019ve spent quite a bit of time together, and he shed a little light on what Stein will be like on the sideline with the Wildcats. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s fiery. He\u2019s energetic. When he gives pregame speeches, when he runs meetings, there\u2019s guys that want to run through a brick wall for him<\/strong>. There\u2019s nothing he loves more than scoring points, that\u2019s for sure \u2014 of course, his family and all that \u2014 but he loves scoring points. He\u2019s a tremendous mind, is a really, really good football coach. But aside from that, one of the big reasons why I\u2019ve continued to be able to follow him is that he\u2019s just an amazing person. He really cares, not only for his players, but the coaches he coaches with and their families.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kentucky football team is preparing for spring practice to kick off next week. There are still plenty…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":632479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-632478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116173044866044603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}